This collection of art songs represents a fusion of many folk, classical, neoclassical, and contemporary influences. Taking as its theme the Portuguese Fado, the most prominent influence, Marco Lucchi's series of compositions were recorded by an ensemble between 1988 and 2008.

track order:

1. della Perla Lunare
(Cristina Blarzino, harp - Geoff Warren, flute - Laura Polato, piano)

2. prima Canzone d'Amore
(Lorena Fontana, voice - Cristina Blarzino, harp - Marco Lucchi, voice and programming)

3. seconda Canzone d'Amore
(Lorena Fontana, voice - Cristina Blarzino, harp - Geoff Warren, saxes - Marco Lucchi, voice and programming)

4. Dado Lullaby
(Marco Lucchi, keyboard, electronics)

5. Les jamais, les toujours
(Lorena Fontana, voice - Cristina Blarzino, harp - Geoff Warren, flutes)

6. Fado Orfico
(Cristina Blarzino, harp - Quinto Grigatti, percussions)

7. Temps Clar*
(Lorena Fontana, voice - Cristina Blarzino, harp - Geoff Warren, saxes - Carlo Pini, bassoon - Quinto Grigatti, percussions - Marco Lucchi, keyboards)

8. delle Ranevoci e Girini
(Lorena Fontana, voice - Laura Polato, keyboards - Geoff Warren, saxes - Quinto Grigatti, percussions)

9. The Burn
(Laura Polato, voice - Geoff Warren, sax - Marco Lucchi, keyboards)

10. Acores
(Laura Polato, keyboards - Cristina Blarzino, harp - Geoff Warren, flute - Marco Lucchi, programming)

11. Fado Atlantico
(Cristina Blarzino, harp - Geoff Warren, flutes - Quinto Grigatti, percussions - Marco Lucchi, keyboards)

Recorded and produced by Marco Lucchi
in Modena between 1988 and 2008.
Music and words by Marco Lucchi
* except "Temps Clar," words by Andrea Lodi.
Mastered for Webbed Hand by C.P. McDill.

"You can consider it an album of songs, some with words (just a few) and some not ...an album of love songs ...about how much love can say about us and our world ...love as a knowledge ...love as a deep, very deep, knowledge ...and music the same ...they say that music is emotion, sense ...yes, i agree ...but music is knowledge too, my better way to try to understand the world and his enigmas ...it is science ...and love the same

Renaissance French and English music, portuguese folk songs, Schubert's, Mahler's, Fauré's, Debussy's, Messiaen's, Takemitsu's, Rapp's, & Bates's musics guided me in this enterprise

...and she."

---Marco Lucchi (Modena, 2008)

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